A Single Match

A New Author In D+QS Acclaimed Gekiga Line In This Collection Of Hauntingly Elliptical Short Stories, Oji Suzuki Explores Memory, Relationships, And Loss With A Loose Narrative Style, Filling Each Tale With A Sense Of Unfulfilled Longing. He Plumbs The Dissolute Depths Of Human Psychology, Literally Bathing His Characters In Expansive Shadows That Paradoxically Reveal As Much As They Obscure. A Young Man Catches A Cold After Being Soaked In The Rain And Is Tended To By His Grandmother. He Drifts, Dreaming Of A Train Trip With An Older Brother He DoesnT Have. A Traveling Salesman Comes Across A Boy Lying In The Middle Of The Road And Stops To Have A Cigarette And Tell A Story That Sifts Through Memories Of Faces And Places Before Settling Back On The Boy And Pretending To Not Look At The Stars. A Young Woman Walks Along The River With Her Bicycle And A Friend Who Is Nothing More Than A Disembodied Head-Discussing Past Times Together, Memories They Have Of Each Other. Although He Touches On Many Of The Same Themes As His Contemporaries In The Field Of Postwar Alternative Manga-Yoshihiro Tsuge (LHomme Sans Talent) And Seiichi Hayashi (Red Coloured Elegy)-Suzuki Uses An Ever Shifting Narrative Approach And Dashes Of Surrealist Humor To Distinguish His Work From That Of His Peers.